Cornealious and LaQonna began dating in 2005, roughly the time when Anderson abandoned his final appeal.

"Should I have told her?" he asks. "I probably should have. But I just didn't want to freak her out. It's at the back of my mind every day whether this is too much for her. Whether she can handle it. I'm believing by faith it's going to be over soon."

This all puts LaQonna in an odd position. If Anderson turned himself in back in 2002, they never would have started dating. They never would have gotten married or had their two youngest children.

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"If he did receive a letter or if the attorneys back then said, 'Turn yourself in,' and he just didn't do it, and he let me know, 'I didn't turn myself in,' yes, I would have told him, 'You need to turn yourself in.' But that's not how it went," she says. "I still would have married him."

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I feel sorry for his family but not for this POS. While he was on the lamb, did he bother to check on his victims to see how they were handling the fact that he was hiding from justice? Maybe I miss that part.

Prison was never intended to be a punishment. It was intended to keep dangerous criminals off of the streets until they were no longer a danger to society. This man clearly has proved that he is no longer a danger to society. Therefore, there is no need to put him in prison.

If the point of our judicial system is to serve "justice," then the only way to serve that interest in this case is to allow this man to return to his life, his family, his work, and everything else that defines his existence now, 13 years after he erred. If this sets a new precedent, so be it. That would be a good precedent to set, since it would set a standard for what constitutes gross negligence on the part of the government versus what harm would result from a clearly obscene level of nonsensical retribution for a crime. An opinion can be written to establish the bounds of this standard, but certainly any other result in this case would not be "justice".

JerQuan? What is a JerQuan, a hero from the Pre-Civil War era? Perhaps an amalgamation of different words words describing his father's gangster behavior? This kid is almost destined to be in the Womens' bathroom at Meramec College in a couple of years........

@ted148 Google his "sympathy" quote and you'll see he can't even come up with his own saying but one from "Major Pain." which others have used from the count I get. I guess this moron wants to spend $32,000 for the next 13 years on a person who did MORE for himself that the judicial and prison system ever would! Please pull the cash out of your arse and make those payments for the rest of us warofhatever!

Lets count them:-Worked and paid taxes-Coached or should I say like above VOLLENTEERED his time to coach,

-Started a business EMPLOYING how many?? Wwhich BTW is MORE TAXES coming into the system because OF Mr. Anderson-He PAID HIS OWN business taxes into the system-Was very active in his churchWhat else do we NOT know which is really non of our busness!What have YOU done War? Come on slick. You posted something copied from a movie which tells us you might be one of those welfare suckers on the system or completely oblivious to the cost to your wallet to put what many of us consider a completely REHABILITATED criminal by doing MORE than most of the whole paroled prisoners in America and you are posting crap from a movie? Go pay his taxes for him! He probably has done MORE in the past 13 years than you have!

And those are what we do know about Mr Anderson. You want to take away incoming taxes and PAY MORE OUT to feed him, clothe him, shelter him, pay for his ACA which a president forced down our throats and now criminals get it for FREE which is completely unnecessary as they get all that IN prison so why add costs to US?

@ted148Google his "sympathy" quote and you'll see he can't even come up with
his own saying but one from "Major Pain." which others have used from
the count I get. I guess this moron wants to spend $32,000 for the next
13 years on a person who did MORE for himself than the judicial and
prison system ever would! Please pull the cash out of your six and make
those payments for the rest of us warofhatever!

Lets count them:-Worked and paid taxes-Coached or should I say like above VOLLENTEERED his time to coach.

-Started a business EMPLOYING how many?? Which BTW is MORE TAXES coming into the system because OF Mr. Anderson-He PAID HIS OWN business taxes into the system-Was very active in his church-What else do we NOT know which is really non of our business!

What
have YOU done War? Come on slick. You posted something copied from a
movie which tells us you might be one of those welfare suckers on the
system or completely oblivious to the cost to your wallet to put what
many of us consider a completely REHABILITATED criminal by doing MORE
than most of the whole paroled prisoners in America do, and you are posting
crap from a movie?

Go pay his taxes for him! He probably has done MORE
in the past 13 years than you have!

And those are what we do know
about Mr Anderson. You want to take away incoming taxes, employed people in his area, and PAY MORE
OUT to feed him, clothe him, shelter him, pay for his ACA which a
president forced down our throats and now criminals get it for FREE
which is completely unnecessary as they get all that IN prison so why
add costs to US?

@warlordsworld You are a typical brain-dead teabagger/troll -without a shred decency or common sense - how does depriving his wife and family of a taxpaying, law-abiding father, at the cost to taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars serve the greater good? Now mind you dumb dumb, that the man who was robbed has forgiven him, yet somehow you sitting in your easy chair, passing judgement and stuffing your fat-ass face with potato chips, think he needs to rot for 13 years. You sir, are a douche of magnificent proportions.

The system can break down and allow the individual not be be persued. So he leads a normal and honest life. Then, when the break down is discovered, it takes him back to when the incident occurred. As if he lived in limbo all that time. But, he did not. He lived an honest, god fearing, loving family life with an established business he ran in a dedicated way.

When will it be allowed that REASON can be introduced into the system? Why break up the life of this man and his family? His business, income, family and community will suffer if that happens. Should taxpayers now support him for years and diminish the lives of his family and him? Surely many community members will vouch for him. Why not parole him to the community for a few years and let him continue to support his family? What is the point of incarceration? We say it is to make people behave better but it seems to be purely vindictive if a person in this man's situation is sent to prison. ???????????

@imastar7@carol.gilster Hi, I take positive results wherever I can find them. Perhaps living a "forced" good life outside prison walls bears more positive weight than forced good living inside prison where one has little choice as to how one lives?

@imastar7This man could have easily broken the law many times because he was not
imprisoned. He did not. Had he been in prison, his opportunity to
break the law would have been very limited. Therefore, he has proven
his ability to be a good, lawabiding citizen.Is prison to make
people behave better or to punish people? He now behaves better
already. so the question becomes should he now be punished? If so,
also punished will be his family and we, the taxpayers, who will have to
support him during his imprisonment.And, it is not necessary to
make demeaning comments in a discussion. It tends to draw attention
away from the actual discussion.

This man could have easily broken the law many times because he was not imprisoned. He did not. Had he been in prison, his opportunity to break the law would have been very limited. Therefore, he has proven his ability to be a good, lawabiding citizen.

Is prison to make people behave better or to punish people? He now behaves better already. so the question becomes should he now be punished? If so, also punished will be his family and we, the taxpayers, who will have to support him during his imprisonment.

And, it is not necessary to make demeaning comments in a discussion. It tends to draw attention away from the actual discussion.

@imastar7@carol.gilster No free pass argument is persuasive, given the 13 years of anguish this man must have been weighed down with, given the harm inflicted on his wife and children on watching this travesty unfold, given what will no doubt be his changed image in the community upon his release, all of which constitute a part of the "punishment" aspect of our judicial system. As for the "rehabilitative" aspect of the system, the facts suggest they have been successfully achieved, and in a spectacular way (which is not likely a result the system would have even marginally achieved had this man served his sentence in prison, at great public cost). The system needs to allow for some measure of common sense.

@imastar7@carol.gilster You are a typical brain-dead teabagger/troll -without a shred decency or common sense - how does depriving his wife and family of a taxpaying, law-abiding father, at the cost to taxpayers of hundreds of thousands of dollars serve the greater good?

Nixon should do the right thing and let him out. He belongs with his family, not in prison. He had some inept lawyers. He was not properly represented. I am also a resident of Webster Groves. I am glad to have a neighbor like him.

re-sentence him give him 20 years probation with 13 year sentence to be imposed if he violates probation. It's a win-win for everyone let him be with his family and gives state piece of mind in case he does screw up

Quite frankly, if I'd heard that a neighbor of mine had been charged with armed robbery , no matter how long ago that was, and then not put into prison due to a clerical error or technicality, I would more than likely not trust him, because there's no telling what else a guy like that might do somewhere along the line, no matter what kind of an honest life he was living.